OCR Text |
Show "Josh Billing." Tlie announcement that the cele-:bratcd cele-:bratcd "Josh," with Bllluigo for a butt name, would lecture in Uie Institute Insti-tute last evening attracted a houseful) of fun-loving ladies and gentlemen. The philosopher was iutrm.lu.ed to the audience by Hon. J. B. Mclvean, audalierhe Josh, not the Judge had divested himself of hat, overcoat, and nothing more in the raiment hue, be "waded in" aud divested himself of about as m.iuy "go.vks ' as one man of his size could carry, ".'luled, muskcters and krabs" were tiie particular objects at which he limited his humorousdartsof wisdom, though hornets and religion were "Joshed'' on ihe side. For one hour he shook up his audience in hvely fashion and sprinkled ihe Hour with buttons off the clothes of those who had ii'glected to take the precaution of lightly sewing them on before going go-ing to hear the lecture. He leaves the city for the West to-d iv. |